News From Lantus
Posted by Sin-Tex at 13:19 PM

Lantus "AUTHOR" of the great xSnes9x Emu and Game Ports such as Doom-X
and Duke Nukem 3d has kindly e-mailed me with these updates.

Unfortunately real life has taken its toll a little and I haven't been around too much to work on my projects. I am still actively developing my homebrew apps however - xSnes9x is what will be released first up. I'm hoping sooner than later. I really want to get v1.05 out to the folks out there.

Vice-64X v3
Posted by Sin-Tex at 9:05 AM

News Source: XBINS

Xport has released yet another version of his Commodore 64 Emulator.

What's New:

- Create blank disks from in-game options menu

- Fixed Music Control Menu so that it will load M3U files correctly.

- Load New Disk from regular directories or gamebase directories.

- Can now wrap backwards from first screenshot to last screenshot

- Bugfix virtual keyboard in 1080i mode

YOU CAN OFCOURSE DOWNLOAD IT FROM #xboxemu ( server irc.zoite.net )

Vice-64X v2
Posted by Sin-Tex at 9:33 AM

News Source: XBINS

Xport has released v2 of his Commodore 64 Emulator.

What's New:

- Gamebase64 Support (read docs below for configuration/setup)

- Virtual Keyboard - go to Controller Configuration / UI Mappings to select
the button combo that will bring up the Virtual Keyboard while in-game.

- Defaults to PAL instead of NTSC and Joystick port 2 instead of 1 since
these are more sane values.

- Swapping joysticks is now a controller-configurable action. Default is
LEFT_TRIGGER to swap joysticks while in game. Go to Controller Configuration -
Game Mappings to change it.

- Can now save any string setting (like Samba/Relax share names) and directory
locations via menus. To change Samba/relax share names, go to Configuration -]
Network/Netplay Configuration. To change the default directories, go to
Configuration -] Change Default Directories

- Fixed bug preventing some carts from working.

- Play SIDs in background

- Music Control Menu - press LTHUMB anywhere to bring up the music control menu.
This is also a customizable controller action while in-game. Configure it
via the Controller Configuration -] UI Mappings menu.

- Can enter descriptions for cheat codes using virtual keyboard or real keyboard.

Xbox Top 100
Posted by Sin-Tex at 23:14 PM

Xbox Top 100 has been reset. If you have time make us number one & give us your vote.

All you need do is click here and click vote.

CXBX Info
Posted by Sin-Tex at 16:22 PM

CXBS -: Xbox Emulator For PC.

News Source: NGE Forums

caustik author of CXBS has posted word that the project is still alive.

We're alive

Just wanted to let you all know kingofc, myself, and cxbx are all alive and well.

There has been a real nasty live lock situation in Halo, and tonight I finally tracked it down and fixed it. This means that progress can continue, and I think we are getting very close to graphics on Halo.

For anybody technical, the problem was a bad implementation of NtUserIoApcDispatcher (my bad). Basically, Halo was never recieving an expected Apc from NtReadFile on ui.map.

Also, amazing work by the anonymous GameCube emu authors..I know who you are

caustik

Thanks to Wraggster for the News

dvd2xbox v0.4.5
Posted by Skunkie at 0:00 AM

New/Fixes/Problems

Disk browser:

1.4 Mhz XBOX On sale soon!
Posted by XDelusion at 19:20 PM

I thought it was just the herb, but I had a second glance and low and behold, the screen really did say what I thought it was saying, that Japanese retailer OverTop will offer an upgraded XBOX with a 1.4Ghz Intel "Tualatin" Celeron (256KB cache)! The units are supposed to go on sale in November, but aside of that I do not know the costs or anything. In the mean time keep an eye on these two pages:

Polygon News


FriendTech

Dyne:bolic Linux distro 1.0
Posted by XDelusion at 19:09 PM

This may be the Linux distro for all the Multi-Media heads out there, check it!!

dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution working directly from the CD without the need to install or change anything on harddisk. It can recognize most of your hardware devices and offers a vast range of softwares for sound and video production, streaming, 3d modeling, peer to peer and filesharing, deejaying and veejaying, games, a world navigator with detailed maps and factbooks and much more ;)

Surf, stream, edit, encode and broadcast both sound and video, all just in one CD you have simply to boot.

dyne:bolic 1.0 it is shaped on the needs of media activists to stimulate the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog informations. It takes birth as a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing informations.

Dyne:bolic Homepage

XBTool 1.0.8b17 and 1.0.8b18
Posted by Skunkie at 10:56 AM

They just keep pumping them out!

New/Fixes:

1.0.8b18

EvoX M7 Bios
Posted by Skunkie at 21:37 PM

EvoX has finally come out with a new bios!

On 9/19/2003 The M7 was released.

This is a multiversion bios

The M7 Bios has all the features of the D.6 and a media patch function has also been added.

This new bios is released in two versions:

Eject Fix (EvoxM7_EF.bin)
No Eject Fix (EvoxM7.bin)

Source: Evolution-X

Posted by SuRF3R at 16:20 PM

ZXBTools is a windows program With the one you could build multigame menus for Xbox in a fast and easy way. You only have to choose folders or ISOs where games are, write a description and select a thumbnail for each game.

ZXBTools have others features:

MAMEoX 0.74.1b
Posted by SuRF3R at 18:34 PM

It's been awhile, but here is a new version of MAMEoX.

New/Fixed:

To much to mention here ;)

Source: Xbins
Download: The usual places

Dvd2xbox v0.4.4
Posted by SuRF3R at 16:30 PM

What's new/fixed:

New Cromwell 2.26
Posted by SuRF3R at 16:26 PM

Basically, 2.26 has no new features, as a lot of bug-fixes.

What's new ?

XBtool 1.0.8b15 and XBtool 1.0.8b16
Posted by SuRF3R at 16:13 PM

Another XBtool

New/Fix:

New modchip called X.PLOIT
Posted by Deviance at 0:03 AM

>> Team ANKARAH, known from their F-14 PS2 modchip (full noswap modchip with only 14wires) is working on a new Xbox modchip now. At this moment no information at all is known about the modchip that is currently still in development.

From http://www.ankarah.com/xploit/home.html:
[QUOTE]
X.PLOIT NEWS
X.PLOIT developement is right on track onto the road of Xcellence
Xpect another earthbraking MOD from Team Ankarah very soon..
Do not Xpect any informations regarding X.ploit chip for at least 2 weeks.

X.PLOIT SPECIFICATIONS
- You will not believe it.

X.PLOIT FAQ
Q. Will this device damage my XBOX console?
A. No, X.PLOIT is a 'console friendly' design and will in no way damage your console. Please view "SPECS" for further information.
[/QUOTE]

Official Site: http://www.ankarah.com/xploit/home.html
News-Source: maxconsole.com

EvolutionX Dashboard Beta Build 3921
Posted by SuRF3R at 23:26 PM

After waiting for so long we can finally use a new version of the Evolution-X Dashboard :)

What's new:

XBoyAdvance v7
Posted by SuRF3R at 4:02 AM

XBoyAdvance, the allround GameBoy emulator, has come up to the 7th version.

What's New:

Xbox Top 100
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:15 PM

Xbox Top 100 has been reset. If you have time make us number one & give us your vote.

All you need do is click here and click vote.

XBtool 1.0.8b12
Posted by SuRF3R at 16:18 PM

And another version of XBtool has been released today.

Fixed/Changed:

Frodo-X Beta 5
Posted by Skunkie at 9:44 AM

For all of us Commodore 64 fans!

New features/Fixes:

Fixed: a bug where having other non-C64 file types in a zipfile
would cause the game not to load
Fixed: a bug where having a multiple game zip file would not load if
the numbering was done with 1,2,etc instead of A,B,etc.
Fixed: WHITE button from freezing when switching disks (In game menu
selection for this still worked)

Source: XBINS

As always more is in development!

And last:
Thanks to Sin-Tex for allowing me to do this!

XBtool 1.0.8b11
Posted by SuRF3R at 19:31 PM

Another new version of XBtool has been released

What's new/fixed:

Double Density CDR / DVD
Posted by XDelusion at 0:31 AM

This is basically XBOX related and I am SHURE the lot of you will salibate over this news, I'm not sure where the original story came from, so for now thank Atarmiga (a.k.a. jOnk) for the news. :)

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. has developed a high-density writing technology, "HD-BURN", which has allowed conventional CD-R media (700MB) to doubles the writing capacity (1.4GB). "HD-BURN" will be subsequently adopted into our Super Combination Drives. In addition, SANYO has formulated the standard of the writing format and started the product licensing

CD-R media remarkably became widespread because of its reasonable price and the superior compatibility. On the other hand, the needs for large volume of data writing, such as video writing have grown. For large volume of data writing, DVD media (4.7GB) will become widespread as well. In addition, users demand the media, which have intermediate range of the capacity between CD-R and DVD since there is a large capacity difference between these 2 media. Besides these capacity variation demands, users also demand usability and affordability. "HD-BURN" technology meets these needs and realizes large volume data writing at a moderate price.

A written disc by "HD-BURN" technology is compatible with a DVD player, and allows the player to read the disc with some modification of firmware. SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. will disclose the technology used to read the media written with "HD-BURN" technology by a DVD player, and will propose to other DVD drive manufacturers that they adopt this technology as an industry standard.

Benefits of the HD-BURN technology to users
Double capacity

The high-density writing technology, "HD-BURN" allows a conventional CD-R media to write twice as much as its own capacity. This drive is ideal for large volume data storage such as video data.
High speed writing and reading
"HD-BURN" mode allows 36X (CD-ROM) writing speed and 80X (CD-ROM) reading speed at the maximum by using CLV (Constant Linear Velocity) format.

BURN-Proof prevents writing errors caused by Buffer Under Run errors
Support for CD-RW media
CD-RW media support by HD-BURN will be realized by modified firmware in the future. CD-RW media support by HD-BURN enables 24X data writing speed at the maximum for commercial CD-RW media.
Applications software
Available applications software for writing are B's GOLD by B.H.A and Nero by AHEAD. Users can easily use HD-BURN writing technology since these applications have DVD video writing feature and Video authoring feature.

GUI's for DOSXBOX... Perhaps..
Posted by XDelusion at 19:59 PM

A lot of people have been desiring a Graphic Interface for DOS on there XBOX's, so I figured I'd ask around on Amiga.org where people LOVE to play with winblows alternatives. Anyhow here are the links I have received from them, but please note, none of this has been tested, so please post your finds here:

GUI's 4 DOS Discussion
And here are the links:

QubeOS

RUN DOS RUN!

First Details: Inside the Xbox 2 - Part 1
Posted by Sin-Tex at 12:26 PM

News Source: TeamXbox
By: Cesar

Both ATI and Microsoft executives are absolutely refusing to answer questions on the Xbox successor, but that didn’t stop us in our mission to be the “Insider’s Choice for Xbox Information.”

We’re proud to bring you today the very first info on the Xbox 2 GPU. Our highly placed source within the industry informed us that the graphic technology powering the Xbox successor is a derivative of the R500, the successor of the R420 to be unveiled later this year at Comdex.


This graphic chip has been in design for longer than a year at ATI’s Marlborough, Mass. office and much like the Xbox’s nVIDIA GPU, the Xbox 2 graphic chip will also be a custom silicon that will have the R500 as its core technology.

This graphic chip is aimed at the next version of the DirectX API, most probably called DirectX 10, which is already in development and simply code named: DirectX/LH. LH stands for Longhorn, the next major desktop Windows release, which will follow Windows XP.

This same source also told us: “Microsoft chose ATI not just because the publicly known problems with nVIDIA but also because current technology shows ATI is the real winner when it comes to pixel shaders performance.” Something that is correct, as several publications have put in evidence that ATI’s Radeon 9800 Pro surpasses the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra in most Pixel Shaders 2.0 benchmarks.

“And we all know graphics’ future is all about pixel shaders” our source added.

This VPU is being designed with the latest technologies in mind, such as GDDR2 SDRAM provided by Samsung running at 1600 MHz. A 128-bit configuration is capable of providing up to 25.6 GB/s peak bandwidth, while its 256-bit mode brings up to a shocking 51.2GB/s peak bandwidth!!! Samsung’s GDDR2 256-megabit memory will enable graphics memory cards of 512 MB, althought it is impossible to confirm if the Xbox 2 will feature such amount of system memory.

Speculating the Xbox 2 might ship in Christmas 2005, we can be sure its graphic chip will support Pixel Shader 3.0, a model that is a significant improvement over today’s 2.0 version, as well as Vertex Shaders 3.0. This will make the Xbox 2, without a doubt, the most powerful console when it comes to visual performance with a graphic chip that, in hardware terms, is two generations ahead of current technology.

DOSXBox v2
Posted by Sin-Tex at 18:50 PM

News Source: XBINS

286/386 PC Emulator port for XBox

Author: Xport

What's New :

- ISO9660 support (read regular data CDs in XBox DVD-ROM drive)

- Map keyboard keys to joypad buttons

- Control mouse via joypad analog stick

- Flip X/Y axis direction on joypad and mouse controls

- Flip analog stick control (default is joystick on left analog, mouse on right ;
flipping means joystick controler on right analog and mouse control on left)

- Change mouse sensitivity on-the-fly

- Re-scan CD after inserting another

- Read/write config files on-the-fly

Xbox Top 100
Posted by Sin-Tex at 0:45 AM

Xbox Top 100 has been reset. If you have time make us number one & give us your vote.

All you need do is click here and click vote.

Frodo-X v4
Posted by Sin-Tex at 18:04 PM

News Source: XBINS

Commodore 64 Emulator for Xbox:

Authors: DragonZ, Lantus

This release is probably the biggest overhaul to date.
It was supposed to have skin support, but I didnt get around to
adding a visual skin editor like XPort has. I figured most people dont
want to edit the INI file, then upload, then check, repeat. So for now
skin support is disabled. I did redo the entire frontend though and got
an awesome default skin from Fe-Flicker and Nuak of the Xport skin fame.
I was a big fan of their 'blue style' stuff since they started doing XPort
skins. There's really maybe 2 betas left in me for Frodo-X, at least for
the time being. I wanna get back to working on the Spectrum emu port
I started awhile ago and I wanna take a crack at
the Vice (C64 emu) source again.


Enjoy,


Change History
---------------

Beta 4 (September 6th 2003)
- Complete revamp of frontend code
- New 'blue style' skin by Feflicker and Nuak
- Added Screenshot support (up to 9 PNGs per game, use left/right on Right Thumb stick to cycle shots)
- In game menu (click right thumb while in game)
- Added Simulate Keypress menu (accesable through in-game menu)
- Added Graphic Filter selection (Simple2X, AdvanceMame, Scanlines, TV Mode, 2xSai)
- Added Hardware Filter selection (Point, Bilinear, Trilinear, Anisotropic)
- User made skin support underpinnings (disabled for now)

Atari XLBox v 3 and FCE Ultra v12
Posted by XDelusion at 21:31 PM

Hey guess what!?!? XPort STILL has not gotten to bed. I bet his family and job miss him dearly. :)

What's New :

- Fixed INI reading bug that was making the emu hang during startup and when changing
skins for some people

- Fixed samba/relax shares

FCEUltra v11 (working Gun) AtariXLBox v 2
Posted by XDelusion at 4:12 AM

FCEUltra v 11:
What's New :

- Lightgun changes

- Background music should no longer be choppy when browsing screenshots or
during any other disk-activity

- Changed INI reading routine so that it loads faster

- Global Controller Configuration option. When you go to Main Menu -> Configuration ->
Configure Controllers it will ask you if you want to apply the changes globally.
If you select "Yes" then all of the stored controllers settings for all of the
games you have already played will be updated with the new settings.


All colors on the lightgun calibration screen are now light. There are also visual
targets at which to aim. This may help. The crosshairs on the calibration page are gone.
Once you have calibrated the light gun, go to the "Show Targeting Screen" to see the
crosshairs and to see if things are calibrated the way you wish.

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AtariXLBox Atari 800/5200/130/320/XL/XE Emulator port for XBox v2

What's New :

- Fixed PAL timing

- Fixed bug preventing some executables and carts from not working

- Background music should no longer be choppy when browsing screenshots or
during any other disk-activity

- Changed INI reading routine so that it loads faster

- Global Controller Configuration option. When you go to Main Menu -> Configuration ->
Configure Controllers it will ask you if you want to apply the changes globally.
If you select "Yes" then all of the stored controllers settings for all of the
games you have already played will be updated with the new settings.

NEWS FROM: The horse's mouth. By horse I mean that XPort guy who don't sleep, you should know horse's don't talk let alone code!!! :P

XPort's Homepage

FCEUltra v10 Light Gun Support
Posted by XDelusion at 4:09 AM

...and more from the man who don't sleep!

News from Xbins.org

Jay Miner live's on the XBOX... again!
Posted by XDelusion at 2:35 AM

Once again, XPort blesses us with another great release, this time it is Jay Miner's (father of Amiga) Atari 8-Bit hardware! Here's the NFO:

AtariXLBox v1

Features :

- Emulates Atari 800/5200/130/320/XL/XE

- Excellent compatibility - ported from Atari800

- Loads cartridges, disk images, executables

- USB Keyboard support

- USB Mouse support

- ZIP support

- Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes (see notes)

- Favorites list

- Netplay

- Resizable game screen

- 480p, 720p, 1080i support

- Skin-able

blah blah blah. :o)

News from XBins

About Jay Miner

137GB Hard Drive limit broken!?!?!
Posted by XDelusion at 4:46 AM

It should seem so.n Apparently with the release of XBtool 1.0.8b6, they have included beta support for Paul Bartholomew's LBA48 and partition table patches. What this means is that you should now be able to patch your X2 BIOS file to support Hard Drives over 137Gb in size. I am not sure how high you can go, but I do believe a 200Gb is indeed supported.

Anyhow if you are interested in removing some more of those irritating limitations that Microsloth plagued upon the XBOX, then head on over to the XBtool home page and follow there progress!

XBtool Homepage

FMSXBox v4
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:59 PM

News Source: XBINS

MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ Emulator

What's New:

- Added NTSC/PAL switch to game configuration (fixes speed issues with some games)

- Fixed MSX emu core to support 2-player games correctly.

DosXBOX V1
Posted by XDelusion at 8:50 AM

DOSXBox 286/386 PC Emulator port for XBox v1

http://xport.xbox-scene.com

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

http://www.lantus-x.com/SDLx/

Features :

- Emulates 286/386

- Excellent compatibility - ported from DOSBOX


Super thanks to Lantus for his SDL-XBox libraries!
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READ DOCS FOR TROUBLE SHOOTING!!!
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Thank you MUCH XPort!!!

News From Xbins